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a b Doctorow, Cory (22 September 2015). "Ian McDonald's Luna: New Moon - the moon is a much, much harsher mistress". Boing Boing . Retrieved 26 September 2015. I found myself marveling at the idea of Hopeland -- a community that accepts anyone, of any mindset, race, orientation, ANYTHING -- that prides itself on being a Family of choice -- that just does WHATEVER THAT WORKS. a b "Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 2005 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End . Retrieved 29 March 2009. A small, heart-warming, and heartfelt coda took me entirely by surprise, even though, in retrospect, I could see it was expertly but subtly foreshadowed.

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All that makes this book particularly hard to rate. Because, as I said, I did really like certain elements of it. If you removed those elements, it might even be a rare (for me) 1 star. They are there, though, so... I don't know. Giving it two stars feels a little unfair, too. I still feel like 'it was okay' is the words I'd use if asked about the book, which means 2 stars, even though when I think about the book I'll remember all the stuff I liked, so maybe rounding it up would be fair. If only we lived in a future with the technology to score half-stars on Goodreads. Maybe in a thousand years.

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a b c "Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 2008 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End . Retrieved 29 March 2009. Raisa, for various reasons, flees to Iceland and ends up developing a conglomerate that takes advantage of the abundant geothermal power there. Climate change is forcing people to look to the north, and the people who already live there (both in Iceland and Greenland) are now in a powerful geopolitical position. What a wonderful book. I've liked McDonald since his Luna series, and when I saw that he had a new book out, I had to give it a try.

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This is a long book, written over 23yrs, the world building is detailed and the characters many, it takes some time to remember them all, to hook into the pacing but, the journey is worth it! Have you ever read a novel that was so good you almost felt angry at it? I mean, maybe that’s just me, but there is one author who consistently triggers my literary pleasure centers so hard that I get spillover into all my other senses, and that’s Ian McDonald, who has a new novel out: Hopeland: It's the adaptability, the optimism, the insistence that they will be strong and around, helping each other out 10,000 years in the future. Easy to join, impossible to leave, because family is always there for you.

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The true stars of Hopeland are members of two ancient, secret societies. There’s Raisa Hopeland, who belongs to a globe-spanning, mystical “family,” that’s one part mutual aid, one part dance music subculture, and one part sorcerer (some Hopelanders are electromancers, making strange, powerful magic with Tesla coils). a b Liptak, Andrew (22 August 2015). "Ian McDonald's Forthcoming Luna: New Moon Optioned For Television". io9 . Retrieved 12 December 2015. Maybe just... fiction? But there were definitely some bits that were too weird to entirely count as mainstream, not-speculative, fiction. Also, it's Ian McDonald. No shut up listen. A map line. Zero degrees eight minutes two point one two seconds west. Me in Streatham, him up in Muswell Hill. If we stray more than twenty metres off the line, it’s game over.’ A time-traveling, futuristic saga of a family trying to outlast and remake a universe with a power unlike any we've seen before.

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In past books McDonald has immersed himself in other societies (India, Brazil, Kenya), but in this book he flawlessly combines a multiplicity of societies, some historical and some created, in a plot that seems timely and also timeless. The narrow, tight streets open onto a parallel world. Soho ignores helicopters, breaking glass, rattling shutters, jeering voices, the fact that this is the year 2011. Soho life moves as it ever has, shoaling in sushi restaurants. Chinese buffets, coffeehouses, corner bars. Lads in plaid shorts and Havaianas stand loud-drinking on the pavements. Young women smoke in cut-offs and summer shoes. Televisions play live rolling feed of the riots. Amy Winehouse sings how love is a losing game. opens in a new window opens in a new window opens in a new window opens in a new window opens in a new window It was a treat, a different type of treat even if it's a bit too obscure at time. The language is lyrical and complex, the storytelling hypnotic. Ian McDonald’s latest novel, Hopeland, is many things. It’s a fantasy novel with a strong science fictional core. Or it’s a science fiction novel with elements of fantasy. It’s an examination of new ways of making a family, and it’s an exploration of gender. It’s a great piece of climate fiction, and a novel about how we can cope, how we can do better, as the world gets more hostile. Music plays in important part. So does planning for the long term. And there are even elements of steampunk. All of this in a novel with a compelling cast of characters, told in a beautiful, literary style. It’s not a fast read — at least not for me, as I found myself slowing down at points to appreciate the prose — but it’s an enjoyable, fulfilling one. This will certainly be on my Hugo nominations ballot next year.What else? Corporate and geopolitical shenanigans, the squabbles of gods and an element of possible fantasy or magic that is very much part of the texture of the story but kept as subsidiary theme. Again, any other author I can think of would make 'electromancers' fighting duels with Tesla coils across the rooftops, and declaring themselves the protectors of London, the centre of the story. Or else the cursed family with its own haunting spirit. Or... Instead, here those things are real and important but very far from being at the centre of things, rather they deepen and add weight to what is a glorious, complex and engaging story, one that creates an entrancing world of its own and one that it is simply a joy to visit. This is the story of ordinary people living through a world going through extraordinary change and how they keep going, it is a unique twist on found family, exploring all identities, genders, beliefs and is truly epic in scope. The sky beats with sudden noise. A television news helicopter comes in low and hard over the roof of Debenham’s. The swivel camera hangs like a testicle from the helicopter’s thorax. It turns above Oxford Circus, seeking newsworthy shots. Mob looks up, poses: its CNN moment. On display in this book is a familiar virtue of McDonald’s, seen in works such as River of Gods and Brasyl: the ability to depict a culture in both large and granular details across historical eras. But new to his quiver is the intense lyricism of the prose, the Crowleyesque feyness and sense of fatedness. Narrated in the present tense, the book manages to convey both an immersive immediacy of action and a sense of myth and fabulism.



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